Evelyn Underhill Quotes

This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

Evelyn Underhill

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• I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.

  

  Edie Campbell
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• With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

  

  R. Kelly
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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
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• The president is under 50 percent approval ratings in all the battleground states. So, you could say that President Obama is defying gravity by still being in a dead heat with Mitt Romney. And one of the reasons that he is, is because the changing face of the electorate are giving him a small boost.

  

  Mara Liasson
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• I have no idea what's next. I simply don't have a clue.

  

  Lance Burton
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• The English king's power was curbed by Parliament, though that wasn't always a good thing, as politicians often behave no better than monarchs - there are just more of them.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Good
  • Power
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• More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.

  

  Gabriel Heatter
  • Power
  • Success
  • Man

• With acting, I didn't get much from it.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Acting
  • Get
  • Much

• And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?

  

  Harper Lee
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Father

• Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles.

  

  Ovid
  • Chaos

• The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • History
  • Duty
  • Rewrite

• I want a further step for me...that's my process of development. I don't want to cut it off. I understand where it's been cut off for other people, and I understand the whole process in that order of things, but I see no way in that isn't a trap, that will let me out again without damaging too much, you know?

  

  Edie Sedgwick
  • People

• Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to sufferI bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it.Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison.These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • God

• Infidi maris insidis virisque dolumqueut vitare velint, neve ullo tempore credantsubdola cum ridet placidi pellacia ponti.

  

  Lucretius

• There is a constitutional right for people to own guns, but there's also a constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Life

• We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
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• What does it matter if China’s economy grows when there are no basic protections for its citizens?

  

  Ai Weiwei

• Fate slew him, but he did not drop; She felled-he did not fall- Impaled him on her fiercest stakes- He neutralized them all.She stung him, sapped his firm advance, But, when her worst was done, And he, unmoved, regarded her, Acknowledged him a man.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Done
  • She
  • Fall

• Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • Home
  • Reading

• Love myself, love yourself, peace.

  

  Suga BTS
  • Love
  • Peace
  • Myself

• The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • People
  • Music
  • Truth

• Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Truth

• This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Peace
  • Joy
  • Secret